Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Matthew 23:29 - 23:29
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat 23:29.[1009] Ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε-τῶν προφητῶν-κοσμεῖτε-τῶν δικαίων, because ye build-of the prophets-and garnish-of the righteous) (see ver 35). This was all that they did in memorial of the ancient prophets and righteous men, without observing their words or imitating their deeds; with a resemblance to their fathers in their dispositions; with a contempt of the Messiah, to whom those prophets had borne witness. Understand, therefore, only, as in ch. Mat 24:38. Scripture is wont to call those who have died in the Lord righteous, rather than saints;[1010] see Luk 14:14, and Heb 12:23.
[1009] ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε) A hypocrite brings guilt on himself, even in respect to those things which are not unrighteous or wrong in themselves.-V. g.
[1010] In Latin, “saint” and “holy” are both expressed by the same word, “sanctus.”-(I. B.)